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I think that you intervened in good faith, so I wouldn't worry
too much about what you did.

However, what the girls did could be considered bullying, so I
would report it as such. I hope your school/district has an
anti-bullying policy and procedures to follow.

On 5/20/14, MacQ wrote:
> On 5/20/14, Andrew wrote:
>> To make a long story short, one of my grades went away on a
>> class trip. One of the students did not go on the trip. Th
>> is particular student did not come to school that day. Whil
>> e on the trip, two separate students texted her, one telling
>> her that lots of people were saying that she( the girl not
>> on the trip) was saying bad things about the girl doing the
>> texting, and another saying that nobody liked her, that she
>> was two faced. This upset the girl who came in with her mot
>> her to complain. I took down the information and decided to
>> put a stop to this. I called both numbers that were textin
>> g the girl. I left a simple message not to text the other s
>> tudent again as it could be considered bullying. I spoke wi
>> th the second student and said the same thing. I realize th
>> at a Principal should not be calling a student's cell phone,
>> but the student was very upset and I made a decision to put
>> a stop to it. Was I wrong to do this? Should I have follo
>> wed policy and not called? I feared the student was startin
>> g to get more upset as she had us conduct a bully investigat
>> ion the previous week. I welcome any input as I can acknowl
>> edge I broke policy, but felt I was justified in doing so.
>
> You have a policy in your school which prevents calling a
> student on the phone? I could see that if it was your
> personal phone to student's phone...but I will assume that
> you were at school, used a school phone, and it sure seemed
> like it was school business as bullied student was at school
> and bullying students were on a school trip.
>
> What the he11 did policy dictate; do nothing?

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